Excel database

About Excel

Excel is a planetary popular spreadsheet application by Microsoft. It includes formulas for complex calculations and provides rich charts, graphs and histograms based on underlying grid cell values.

We support Microsoft Excel directly in our products! You don't need separate drivers and can immediately create and read from Excel documents.

Besides holding data in a grid of cells, Excel relies on formulas to have a cell contain result based on values of other cells. As you change values, all cells with calculated values are updated immediately. Excel is a planetary popular solution for working with tabular data, as besides basic formulas, it includes a plethora of specialized functions for engineering, statistics and financials.

Excel's functionality can be extended by custom programming using the included VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) language. Such user-defined functions can be used in formulas as if they are built-in.

Old Excel versions (before Excel 2007) used proprietary binary XLS file format for the documents. Starting with Excel 2007, Excel uses OpenXML format for the documents and saves them with XLSX extension. XLSX document is basically a ZIP archive of a standard XML text document. For higher performance, XLSB binary format can be used instead.

Excel can import and export several data formats, though without any customization.

Any cell in Excel sheet can hold any kind of value – there are no column-enforced data types. When converting Excel to databases, we analyze each data cell value to choose optimal type to be used in a database for a specific column. Date values in Excel are in fact a simple decimal numbers (encoding number of days passed since reference date). Excel displays those numbers as actual dates only if appropriate cell format is used.

Excel support in our products

All our products support Excel database natively. No drivers are needed, you will be able to work with Excel as soon as you run our applications.

Excel is also known as
Excel, Microsoft Excel.
(related files: xls, xlsx)

Export your Excel database

It may make sense to migrate your data away from Excel. You may want to do it permanently or just need to share your tables with a collague in a different format.

We will copy all your tables with their data and apply indexing and relationships exactly as they are in your current Excel database. In a nutshell, you get exactly the same database in another database engine. Each time you run the migration, we will copy all the tables again. Of course, we have a built-in scheduler, so you can run this overnight and have a fresh database copy in the morning.

Our top of the line database converter.Converts all source database to all target databases with all the options and optimizations.

Import data into your Excel database

Have a need to import data from various sources into your Excel database? Luckily we support many popular database formats to make this easy for you. Instead of messing with exporting from source, then working your way to somehow import data into Excel, use our tool to copy all desired tables directly - quickly and easily.

Our top of the line database converter.Converts all source database to all target databases with all the options and optimizations.

Replicate your Excel database

If you have already created your target database (by yourself or using our Full Convert product), you can synchronize data in your target database with your original Excel database. We never pollute your databases with additional tables or triggers for replications. We never even write to your source database.

Replication allows you to update your target database very often, as we always write just a minimum of changes needed to bring databases in sync. For example, if you added three records to a single table in your Excel database, our replication product will write those three records to target database and nothing else. If you deleted some records, changed some others and inserted some, again – our product will pick that up and replay those changes in the target databases without touching existing data that should stay there. Our products are highly optimized for real-world workloads, so data that's inserted into different areas of table are combined and written using high-speed algorithms, as available in a specific target database.

You can run database replication often, as your target database is never empty while replication runs. You will simply see that your changes are applied on each run.